Fish-line-drying reel.



PATENTBD SEPT. 6, 1904 C. A. LAUGHTON. FISH LINE DRYING REEL APPLICATION FILED APE.28, 1904.

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ZJzZ/zewaa UNITED STATES Patented September 6, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FlSH-LlNE-DRYING REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,548, dated September 6, 1904.

Application filed April 28, 1904. Serial No- 205,286. N model.)

To all whom, it nuty concern:

Be it known that l, CHARL as A. LAUGH'PON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Litchtield, in the county of Meeker and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fish-Line-Drying Reels; and 1 do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved tish-line-drying reel; and to such ends it consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view showing the complete device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing also by dotted lines an ordinary tish-line reel and a fish-line. Fig. 3 is a detail in vertical section on the line 41: a! of Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. at is a detail in horizontal section on the line 4r if of Fig. 2.

The numeral 1 indicates a base-support, as shown, of rectangular form and which may be constructed either of wood or of iron. At one end portion this base-support is provided with means for detachably holding an ordinary fish-line reel, said means, as shown, comprising a strap 2, secured to said base at its ends, and a pivoted clamping-arm 3, pivoted to said base at one end and engageable at its free end with the laterally-bent end of a detent-pin 1, secured to said base.

The numeral 5 indicates the pole-engaging base-support, and the numeral 6 the windlassdrum of an ordinary fish-line reel, which parts are shown only by dotted lines. One end of the reel-base 5 is adapted to be inserted under the strap 2, and the other end thereof is adapted to be held by the retaining-lever 3 when the free end of said lever is turned inward under the end of the pine, as shown in 1 and 2. The line-drying reel is supported at the other end of the base-support 1 by means of a pivoted or folding pedestal 7, which at its lower end is pivoted to a lug 8, rigidly supported by one side of the base 1 by means of a thumb-screw 9, which thumb-screw is loosely passed through said lug and is screwed into the hub of said pedestal. \Vhen the screw 9 is loosened, the pedestal '7 is adapted to be turned toward the left with respect to Figs. 1 and 2, down against the face of the base 1. To securely hold the pedestal 7 in a vertical position when the screw 5) is tightened, the hub of said pedestal is shown as formed with a laterally-projecting rounded lock-rib 10, which fits into a correspondingly-formed seat 11 in the lug 8.

At its free end the pedestal 7 is provided with a bearing-sleeve 12, through which is passed a bolt 13. This bolt 13 is adapted to move endwise in the sleeve 12, but is held against rotation by a set-screw 14, which is screwed through the sleeve 12 and engages a groove 15 of said bolt 13. The rearwardlyprojecting end of the boltl3 is threaded and is provided with a thumb-nut 16 between which and the sleeve 12 is compressed a coiled spring 17, placed around the said bolt.

The line-drying reel proper is made up of a pair of arms 18, which when the reel is operative cross each other at approximately right angles. These arms 18 at their free ends are formed with transversely-extended line-engaging heads 19, the ends of which are preferably turned outward slightly to prevent the line from slipping off from the said heads. Both arms 18 are pivotally mounted on the forwardly-projecting end of the bolt 13 between the head thereof and the adjacent end of the sleeve 12, a washer 20 being, as shown, placed between the said bolt-head and the outer arm 18. One of the arms 18 at its central portion is notched at 21 to receive the central portion of the other arm18, and thus to interlock the two arms when they are turned at a right angle to each other. One of the arms 18 is also provided with a lingerpiece 22, by means of which the reel may be rotated.

\Vhen the set-screw ll is loosened, the tension-spring 17 will cause the drying-reel to rotate under friction, and this friction may be varied by adjustments of the tension of the spring by means of the thumb-nut l6. \Vhen 'well understood by all persons familiar with it is desired that the reel should rotate without friction, the bolt 13 is pressed slightly toward the left with respect to Fig. 3, and the set-screw 14 is then tightened.

WVhen the fish-line reel 5 6 is held by the clamping device 2 3, as already described and as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the fishline 2 may be wound from the said reel onto the drying-reel or from the latter reel onto the former reel. WVhen the line is to be Wound upon the fish-line reel from the drying-reel, the latter should be set under friction by means of the spring 17, so that tension will be put upon the line. On the other hand, when the line is to be Wound from the fish-line reel onto the drying-reel the drum of the fish-line reel should be set under tension by the usual means, and the drying-reel should then be relieved from the tension of the spring 17, so that it may be more freely rotated.

WVhen the device is out of use, it may be folded up, first, by moving the reel-arms l8 laterally out of interlocking engagement and turning approximately into parallel positions and then, after loosening the clamping-screw 9, turning the pedestal '7 down against the support 1. This being done, both the pedestal and the arms will lie flat against the base 1, and the device may be then packed into small space, with no projecting parts which are liable to catch or to be broken. The fishline reel should of course be removed before the parts of the drying-reel are folded up.

The necessity for a device of this character, and especially one that will fold up so that it may be packed away and easily carried, is

the use of fishing reels and lines. A fish-line if wound while Wet or damp onto the fish-line reel will become moldy and rot.

The drying-reel described has in practice been found extremely efiicient for the purposes had in View and, furthermore, is of small cost. The device described, it will be understood, is capable of modification within the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

That I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. A. line-d rying reel having folding arms, interlocking at their central portions, a springpressed friction device affording a pivot for said reel and normally holding the said arms interlocked, and means operative at will for rendering said friction device inoperative and permitting said reel to run freely, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a base-support having means for detachably holding a fishline reel, of a pedestal pivoted to said base support, means for locking said pedestal in an operative position, a drying-reel pivoted to the free end of said pedestal, the arms of said drying-reel interlocking at their central portions, but disengageable by lateral movements, and a tension-bolt passed through the arms of said drying-reel and through the free end of said pedestal, a tension-spring 0n the said bolt, and a nut on said bolt for adjusting the tension of said spring, said bolt having endwise movement to permit disengagement of the interlocking parts of said reel-arms, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a base-support having means for detachably holding a fishline reel, of a pedestal pivoted to said basesupport, means for locking said pedestal in an operative position, a drying-reel pivoted to the free end of said pedestal, the arms of said drying-reel interlocking at their central portions, but disengageable by lateral movements, and a tension-bolt passed through the arms of said drying-reel and through the free end of said pedestal, a tension-spring on the said bolt, and a nut on said bolt for adjusting the tension of said spring, said bolt having endwise movement to permit disengagement of the interlocking parts of said arms, and a set-screw operative on said shaft to hold the same against endwise movement and thereby render said spring inoperative on said reel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES A. LAUGHTON.

Vitnesses:

H. S. MoMoNAeLE, VICTORIA MoMoNAGLE, 

